Eduardo Flores

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New
York, May 21, 2012--Mexican authorities must break the cycle of impunity in
journalist murders by fully investigating the killing of police beat reporter
Marco Antonio Ávila García and bringing the perpetrators to justice, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Ávila's
body, which showed signs of torture, was found on Friday on a dirt road near
the city of Guaymas, in the state of Sonora, according to the state attorney general's
office. An autopsy revealed that he had been strangled to death, news reports
said. José Larrinaga Talamante, a spokesman for the attorney general, told reporters that
a written message associated with organized crime had been left with the body,
but he did not reveal any more details.